#star jelly

[jell-o101]

Check out the most recent Attack I made of a Cookie OC!

[oriondagger]

More HorrorVale OC stuff, with Falliver the star jelly...

...and then Captain Aello, former admiral of Tartarus' navy known as the "Storm of the Western Sea" and Quartermaster Ligeia.

[lichenaday]

Sometimes while you are trying to take a walk in the woods to relax from your PhD, you find a mysterious slime and decide you are gonna solve the decades long mystery of "Star Jelly." Because, you know, you have so much free time.

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DAMINIT CAKE HOUND!!! >:(((( how will I level up my cookies nowwwww!!!!

[lailoken]

Earlier this week, almost immediately after concluding my weekly Gloaming Communion, I discovered what feels like the best direct evidence I've witnessed to explain the origin of Star Jelly. The disemboweled gel protruding from this Newt looks and feels identical to other deposits of Star Jelly I've stumbled upon. Seeing this firsthand, it's hard not to think that much, if not all, the Star Jelly I've encountered before was merely the discarded egg-casing material from brooding newts who were eaten by predators. Even still, I can't help but find it fascinating that I only ever seem to come across this stuff in direct connection/proximity to my relationship with the Others. Not to mention, it seems to pack a real punch in terms of drawing the attention of many spirits.

[spookyseasonfacts]

There is a substance that appears on grass called "star jelly," and nobody knows much about it other than that. Explanations range from frogs to stars fallen to earth to cyanobacteria.

The Blob - Orion Magazine

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

PWDRE SER

On the evening of August 13, 1819, in Amherst Massachusetts, a brilliant white fireball flashed through the sky, reflecting off the wall and lighting up the rooms inside of the house of Erastus Dewey before falling to earth in his yard. Dewey discovered a jellylike substance near his front door, and before long Professor Rufus Graves, a chemistry expert at Dartmouth College, was examining it. Graves's report on the pwdre ser, or star rot, was accepted and respected by the scientific community.

Circular in shape, one inch thick, and with a diameter of eight inches, the mass was similar to cloth on the outside; on the inside was a beige, lumpy substance emitting a revolting, noxious odor. Any attempt to get near the jellylike mass produced dizziness and nausea. After the outer layer had been removed, the inner matter rapidly changed from beige to a purplish, bloodlike color and became coated with moisture. Half a pint of the stuff was collected in a glass, and over the next few days, it went from a liquid to a fine, odor-free powder.

One Edward Hitchcock then went to live in Amherst, Massachusetts. He said that years later, another object, like the one said to have fallen in Dewey's yard in 1819, had been found at "nearly the same place." It was exactly like the first one, corresponding in size and color and consistency. The chemical reactions were the same.

Late on the evening of October 8, 1844, two men walking in a plowed field near Coblentz, Germany, were startled to observe the fall of a luminous object that crashed to earth not twenty yards from them. Because it was too dark to investigate, they marked the spot and returned early the next morning. Where the presumed meteorite had come down, however, there was now a gray, gelatinous mass which shook when they poked it with a stick. They did not try to preserve it.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[irisgalaxyexplorationlogs]

Bestiary of the Umbral Sea

Star Jelly

The Star Jelly is one of many species of cnidarians that occupy the voids in the Umbral Sea. Like most creatures of this area, they posses a unique ability to seemingly “swim” from our plane of existence to another, dipping in and out much like aquatic animals in ocean waves. This parallel is how the Umbral Sea was named.

Star Jellies were given this name due to their resemblance to Moon Jellies, which are aquatic and found on several planets with saltwater oceans. The tentacles underneath do sting but will only irritate the skin of most people; painful but not threatening unless there is an allergy. They measure about 20 feet in diameter, and blooms of them will sometimes hang around space stations. A beautiful sight, given their bioluminescence and lovely starflower shaped markings. Some consider them to be sacred because of this star marking. More superstitious sailors consider it good luck if a departure is accompanied by a few of these.